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This release brings a downsizing and cleanup: one flavour, two architectures.
The new, smaller flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still
delivering over 1.1GB of open source software relevant for system
administrators!

New features

EFI Boot support from CD-ROM and USB keys (amd64 only)

mDNS support (try ping grml.local with libnss-mdns and avahi-daemon
or similar enabled on your host)

NFS Client support and d-bus start automatically

grml-debootstrap, the tool of choice to install Debian,
can now directly build virtual machine images.

grml-live, our build tool, was enhanced with new features to
better integrate with Jenkins.
This release, as well as the current daily images
are built from within Jenkins!

Important Changes

The live-media-path=... bootoption is mandatory now. If you're
booting Grml via PXE or from harddisk (e.g. using findiso) please make
sure to add live-media-path=/live/$FLAVOUR to the kernel commandline.
Further details are available at the terminalserver
page and the rescueboot page
in the Grml-Wiki.

Z-Shell configuration has been cleaned up. Quite a few functions
have been removed
from the default configuration.

X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is
now fluxbox. idesk has been removed, all available software is now
reachable from the fluxbox menu.

The accessibility support now consists of shipping standard speakup
and enabling sound during boot. A new beep sequence (4 tones) is sounded
just before the quickconfig menu starts. The isolinux menu will beep once,
and the grub menu will beep three times. (The accessibility boot options
have been removed.)

iSCSI Target is now provided by LIO.
The configuration tool targetcli is included.

xterm now uses the Terminus font, like the VT consoles.

Virtual Machines automatically get the "noprompt" behaviour.

Ancient config files and examples have been removed from grml-etc(-core).

Ancient scripts have been removed from grml-scripts(-core).

Anonymous stats are collected during boot up. This includes: Grml release name,
boot media type (local or remote), a random string, used boot option keys
(no values) and if your CPU is 64bit-capable. You can turn this off with the
nostats boot option.

Bits & bolts

Modem support has been removed from grml-network

VT consoles are driven by grml-runtty, our homegrown login and getty
replacement for Live CDs.

Netboot scenarios should no longer use the "nodhcp" boot option.

grml2hd is no longer in PATH to discourage its use even further.
The related boot options have been removed.

grml2usb: compat for releases < 2009.05, grub1 and lilo support
have been removed.

Release builds are now built from Debian's testing distribution, instead of unstable.

Download Grml 2011.12

Feedback

Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and
feature requests to the Grml team!